A tale of three news narratives

Developments continue in three separate sagas. In Hong Kong, British journalist Tom Grundy reports (and Vined, at left) being hit by an anti-protester as Mongkok buses were removed (661 shares). AFP photojournalist Alex Ogle captures on film a group of men in masks beating up another man who tried to prevent them from removing fences from democracy protest. "This sort of ugly clash has not happened during week-long protests until anti-occupy-ers marched in," former Reuters community manager Carmen Ng notices. Nearby, Washington Post's William Wan tweets a picture of the last gaggle of men suspected of being mainland paid inciters as they are surrounded by heckling pro-student group. "Almost all gone," Wan concludes.

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